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Dean said he never had an "ah-ha moment" when he decided to run for president, but recalls one day that came close. "I was reading the newspaper one time after I announced I wasn't running for a sixth term, and some story made me furious with the president, which is not unusual. And I thought to myself, "Well, are you going to do something about this, or are you going to sit around and complain for the next 20 years?"
"That's sort of the theme of the campaign: Are you going to do something about this, or are you going to sit around and complain some more?"
The Democratic Party wasn't doing anything, he said. "We won by 500,000 votes, although we didn't win the presidency," he said. "But the party acted in Congress like
Bush had a landslide. proposed $1.2 trillion worth of tax cuts, and our guys said, "Oh, no, it should only be $900 billion." They vote for the war, they vote for No Child Left Behind, which is a travesty. They sort of lay down in front of the president's agenda and pretend that he had won by 10 million votes. I just didn't think there was any leadership left in the Democratic Party."
Dean said the "big message" of his campaign is about restoring trust in the two major institutions - the government and corporations. Both, he said, no longer care much about ordinary people
http://desmoinesregister.com/opinion/stories/c2125555/23039925.html
Omitting the offices mentioned, this blurb could have been written by nearly every DUer. -at least until when the primary campaign really began. We all really harped on the Dems when they compromised with bush, and that point about him acting like he had a mandate was practically a mantra.
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